Synopsis
When an innocent looking young man walks into her office unannounced, PI Kinsey Millhone cannot imagine what kind of trouble he could be in. Turns out the clean-cut Michael Sutton is older than he looks and is suffering from a resurrected past traumatic memory. When he was only six years old he believes he stumbled across the burial of an even younger little girl, who had gone missing and who--20-something years later--was still an open missing-person case. Michael asks Millhone to investigate. Quickly, however, Millhone, who's fast-approaching her 38th birthday and has been in this line of business long enough to know when the pieces don't fit together, begins to suspect that Michael's not exactly telling her the full truth. This is Sue Grafton's 21st addition to her Alphabet Series, and yet it reads with as much energy and freshness as brand-new series. Full of all the fun that readers have come to expect, U FOR UNDERTOW dishes up a satisfying Grafton-Millhone serving of surprises and suspense.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2009-12-01 | | Series: | Kinsey Millhone |
| Size | | Length: | 400 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a 4-year-old girl who disappeared more than 20 years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of 6. By the best-selling author of T is for Trespass.
Industry Reviews
"Worth the wait for Grafton fans...."
(10/01/2009)
"Much more than an old-fashioned whodunit, this is a story about owning up to mistakes, and about the past's inexorable pull on one generation to come to terms with the next."
(11/22/2009)
"Grafton has delivered another winner....If Grafton had stayed with just the kidnapping...and Michael's story, she would have given us an entirely satisfying puzzle to solve....But "U IS FOR UNDERTOW runs to 403 pages, and there's no padding. In no hurry to cut to the chase, Grafton devotes the core of her book to tracing and probing her characters' motives, as Kinsey makes the familiar but disturbing discovery that a need to survive can drive innocent people to do evil."
(01/11/2010)
"Grafton...has produced a better book each time out...."
(12/17/2009)
"[I]t's an object lesson in disciplined storytelling to watch Grafton manipulate that time frame to broaden the story and deepen the mystery."
(12/27/2009)
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